buildings burned out with no roofs
broken or boarded-up windows...or bricked over
pothole city
city where you don’t stop for no stop signs
don’t wanna be approached
don’t wanna get shot
steel mill down for the count
down goes Gary! down goes Gary!
knocked out lying on its back
a town full of ghosts
ghosts of a better time
bemoaning and groaning
downtown full of empty stores
empty broken sidewalks
empty dreams and nightmares all too full of reality
half the population done gone
gone gone gone the city on the move
that was their slogan, now dead in the water
an apocalypse standing still
still an apocalypse
lying still in the morgue
Michael Jackson
Karl Malden
Vivian Carter - Vee-Jay Records
Gary Memorial Auditorium
Elbert H. Gary
R.I.P.
R.I.P. Gary, Indiana
